As students acquire skills, they are able to increase their fluency. They move quickly from word to word, using the right feeling, emotion and expression as they read orally. The teacher or another adult can listen and give feedback as a child reads a passage aloud. Fluency depends on familiar vocabulary and a grasp of irregular sight words, such as “was” and “the.” Teachers often play games in class to improve sight word mastery. The goal at the first-grade level could be that a student makes no more than one error in 20 words as he reads with comprehension. Fluency requires sufficient guided practice.
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Leveled Fluency Practice:
Kinder Fluency PracticeLeveled Fluency Passages that start out with Letters, Sight Words, and then build to beginning sentences. Say it with Speed is Level 1. You will want to have them practice daily to build fluency. Free Printables' to practice these skills.
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Reading Simple SentencesStudents will play games while reading simple sentences quickly, read and match games, and read simple stories. Free Printables' to practice.
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Decodeable StoriesThese Printable Stories are very short but build in difficultly. You will want to start with printing out each story and having your child read it at least 3 times. Then you can have them answer the short comprehension fill in the blanks. Keep these in a reading box so that during their free reading time they will have plenty of stories to practice.
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